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Ban= 749 se= chromosome complement may show aggressive tendencies from a-very early age.Price and Whatmore (1967), in exam- inng the criminal records of XYY males, found very little difference between them and XY controls in respect of crime against property.There was, however, a striking difference in the number of convictions for crimes against the person, only four out of nine XYY males having been convicted of this class of crime, compared with 17 out of 18 controls.In the present case the boy's behaviour disorder manifested itself in aggression against both property and persons from an early age.Abnormalities have been noted in the E.EGs of individuals with a variety of sex chromosome abnormalities.Dumermuth (1961) found B.E.G. abnormalities in all but one of 14 boys with chromatin-positive Klinefekteres syndrome, eight of whom were diagnosed prepubertally.Hambe and Son Frey (1964) found E.EG.abnormalities more often among chromatin-positive males than among controls to a statistically significant degree.Medlbin (1966) found an abnormal RE.G.

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